Movies: Marguerite Van Peebles

  • 2022
    Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

    Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)

    Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

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    In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly ...

    Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood